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HOMANN, Johann Baptist - HÜBERN, Johann (ed.)

Kleiner Atlas Scholasticus von Achtzehen Charten
Nürnberg / Hamburg / Leipzig
Homann - Hübern - Gleditsch
[1710]
€1.800 - €3.000

Atlas in-folio (51 x 28,5 cm), complete with all 18 double engraved maps announced in the title. Contents: double hemisphere map of the world (Planiglobii Terrestris Cum Utroq Hemisphaerio Caelesti Generalis Exhibitio) , 4 maps of the continents, 13 maps of Europe. All maps are finely contemporary hand-coloured. Title-page in loosening. Condition: 5 maps have centerfold separations at bottom, with traces of scotch. Modern brown artificial leather binding

The first map is one of the most decorative eighteenth century world maps. The two hemispheres are surrounded by vivid engravings of natural phenomena such as waterspouts, a rainbow, earthquakes, and a volcano. Ms. ex libris on title-page and on verso of first map. modern bookplate Louis Denys Vercruysse

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